The driver picked the unnamed hitchhiker up near the intersection of Brook Forest and Blue Creek roads just before 10 a.m.
At some point, the man pulled a gun, so the driver got out of the car and called police, according to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Techmeyer.
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